Recent publications
27 March 2025
Agnès Bastin and Daniel Florentin recently published an article titled “Heurs et malheurs des DIVD. Les trois malentendus de la démonstration urbaine” in Métropoles, 35 | 2024, posted online on February 24, 2025.
24 March 2025
Laurent Fourchard recently published a book chapter titled “Lost and Peripheral Centralities in the Post-Colony: Lessons from West Africa” in Phelps, Keil & Maginn (eds). Peripheral Centralities, Routledge, 2025.
24 March 2025
Francesca Ferlicca recently published a book review for Matthew Gandy’s “Natura Urbana: ecological constellations in urban space”.
23 March 2025
Marcos Lopes Campos, Deborah Fromm & Vera da Silva Telles recently published an article titled “Dossiê Mercados Transnacionais e suas ferramentas” in Revista Brasileira de Sociologia 12, 2024.
23 March 2025
Mona Fawaz & Eric Verdeil recently published an article titled “Comment reconstruire le Liban ? De guerres en crises, un territoire face à des vagues de destruction” in Métropolitiques, 2025.
News
21 October 2022
The Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS) will host the ninth edition of the Annual PhD Workshop in a hybrid format (virtually and in-person) from 9 to 11 January 2023. With a strong inter-disciplinary focus, as well as an emphasis on the relationship between research and practice, IIHS nurtures research and innovation focused on the challenges and opportunities of India’s urban transition. IIHS has built a substantive on-ground presence of direct policy and programmatic engagement across India, across middle and senior administrative levels, and in multiple urban contexts in the global South. This makes for a globally unique opportunity for […]
15 April 2022
In this episode of Politistes dans la Cité, the podcast of the French Political Science Association, Patrick Le Galès talks about how his research, articulated around the comparison, the study of cities and public policies in a globalized framework, has always nourished his teachings and innovative educational projects. The podcast is available in French on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Deezer, Podcast Addict and Soundcloud. More information on the website of Politistes dans la Cité.
23 March 2022
We would like to draw your attention to the launch of the call for paper abstracts for the V ESA RN 37Midterm Conference “Seeing Like a City / Seeing the City Through”. The conference will take place at the Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research of the Humboldt University Berlin 5th to the 7th of October 2022. The deadline for submission of abstract proposals is May 6. Information on the 27 panels further details on the submission process can be found in the call for papers. Abstracts may be submitted here. For any info or question, please contact: RN37 Organizing […]
15 March 2022
Depuis le milieu des années 2000, les données ont fait une entrée fracassante dans le champ urbain, transformant les manières dont les villes sont gouvernées à l’ère du numérique. Que ce soit au niveau des coalitions d’acteurs, des instruments, des politiques ou des modes de régulation, la donnée impacte la façon dont la vie urbaine se trouve ordonnée. Le MOOC « Données et Gouvernance Urbaine » explore les transformations de la gouvernance urbaine à l’ère du numérique et des données. Qu’est-ce que la donnée fait à la gouvernance urbaine ? Qui gouverne dans une ville investie par le big data […]
14 February 2022
The RC21 Conference will take place in Athens from August 24th to August 26th 2022. The panel list has been published and the call for papers is open until January 31st.